Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is administratively divided into the following subdivisions:.

The rayons are further divided into municipalities (bələdiyyə).

Bahamas

The Bahamas is divided into 31 districts and 1 area administered by the central government.[5]​ The districts are further divided into 43 administrative districts.

Bangladesh

Districts in Bangladesh are local administrative units. In total, there are 64 districts in Bangladesh. Originally, there were 21 larger districts with several subdivisions in each district. In 1984, the government converted all these subdivisions into districts. Each district has several sub-districts called upazila in Bengali with a total of 493 upzillas.

Belgium

In Belgium it is the municipal unit called arrondissement (district), which are internally subdivided into communes. They are equivalent to the administrative level between the province (or the capital region) and the municipality, or the lowest judicial level. Although the word is French, Dutch-speaking provinces also call their districts arrondissement, in the Dutch plural arrondissementen.

In Belgian municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, on the initiative of the local council, sub-municipal administrative entities with elected councils can be created. As such, Antwerp alone, with over 460,000 inhabitants, was subdivided into nine districts") (Dutch: districten).

Benin

In Benin, the higher administrative units make up the 12 departments of Benin, which are subdivided into 77 communes, further divided into 545 districts (arrondissements, in French).

Burma

The 67 districts of Burma are the second administrative division of that country, below regions and states and above municipalities.

Botswana

Botswana is divided into 17 districts, 10 rural and 7 urban. They are administered by 16 local authorities (district, city or town councils).[6]​[7]​.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a district is an autonomous administrative unit.

The Brčko district in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina is formally part of both the Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Brčko District Assembly has 29 seats.

Brazil

The municipalities of Brazil are subdivided into districts. Small municipalities usually have a single urban district, containing the city itself, which consists of the seat of local government, where the prefeitura and the câmara de vereadores (city council and municipal council, respectively, the local executive and legislative bodies) are located. Rural districts and groups of urban districts (mainly in large cities) can also present a sublocal executive body, called subprefeitura.

Brunei

A district is known locally as daerah and is the first-level administrative division of Brunei. There are four districts in the country, namely Brunei-Muara), Tutong, Belait and Temburong. Each district is administered by a Jabatan Daerah (district office), which is headed by a Pegawai Daerah (district officer). All district offices are government departments under the Ministry of Home Affairs (Malay: Kementerian Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri).

Bhutan

The districts of Bhutan (dzongkhag) are local administrative units consisting of village blocks called gewog"). Some have sub-districts called dungkhag").

Canada

In the province of Quebec (Canada), the cities of Quebec, Cookshire-Eaton, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Longueuil, Lévis, Montreal, Métis-sur-Mer, Saguenay and Sherbrooke are divided into arrondissements (districts) which are in turn divided into neighborhoods.

Czechia

A "district" in the Czech Republic is an okres") (plural okresy). After a reform in 2002, the districts lost administrative power to regions (kraje) and selected cities (pověřené obce) and became statistical areas.

China

In mainland China, district (simplified Chinese, pinyin, shìxiá qū) is a subdivision of any of several administrative units of cities, including municipalities, subprovincial cities, and prefecture-level cities. The districts have county level status.

Modern districts are a recent innovation. In the context of premodern China, the English translation "district" is typically associated with xian (in traditional Chinese, pinyin, xiàn), another Chinese administrative division. The xian translates as "county of the People's Republic of China" in the context of modern China.

Colombia

In Colombia, the districts are a type of municipality with special characteristics, which the Congress of the Republic elevates to this regime, of which at the moment there are 12:.

South Korea

A district (gu) is a subdivision of the largest cities in South Korea. Smaller cities do not have districts, while districts in Seoul and six metropolitan cities") are treated as a city in their own right.

Costa Rica

After the province and the canton (municipality); The district is the last step of the territorial organization into which Costa Rica is divided.

Slovakia

In Slovakia, a district (okres")) is a local administrative unit.

USA

There are several types of districts in the United States.

The District of Columbia is the only part of the United States, excluding the United States Territories, that is not located within any of the fifty states.

A constituency with one representative in Congress is a Congressional District. Each state is organized into one or more of these districts; The exact number within each state is based on the most recent census. Only voters within each district may vote in the election for that district's member of the House of Representatives. In total, there are 435 congressional districts in the United States; each has approximately 630,000 people, with some variations.

A constituency with one representative in a state legislature is a *legislative district").

Municipal councils that are not elected at large may have electoral districts called wards or districts.

The territory over which a federal court has jurisdiction is a federal judicial district. In more than half of the states, a federal judicial district is coextensive with the state. In other states, there is more than one such district.

The United States also has many types of special purpose districts with limited local government powers. School districts are the most common, but other types of districts include community college districts, hospital districts, public utility districts, irrigation districts, port districts, and public transportation districts.

Various federal, regional, and local agencies, such as the National Register of Historic Places, recognized historic districts as "Historic District (United States)").

Some cities like New York are made up of districts or boroughs "Borough (New York)").

Philippines

The use of the term district (district) in the Philippines has similarities with that in the United States.

France

The districts of France were the first subdivision of the départements from March 4, 1790 to 28 pluviôse an VIII (February 17, 1800). Then in the 19th century, the districts were a kind of intercommunity, they were replaced by communauté de communes and communautés d'agglomération after 1999.

Currently in France there are two types of districts:.

Ghana

Districts are second-level administrative subdivisions of Ghana, below the region level. There are currently 261 local metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (or MMDAs).[11]​[12]​.

Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea is divided into 8 provinces, and these are divided into 19 districts and 37 municipalities. The municipalities are also divided into urban districts and rural localities.[13]​[14]​.

Haiti

In Haiti, the 42 districts (arrondissements) correspond to the municipal unit and are in turn subdivided into communes.

Hungary

The 175 districts were established on January 1, 2013. The existing 19 counties are subdivided into 6 to 18 districts per county. The capital Budapest does not belong to any county and is already divided into 23 districts.

India

Districts in India are local administrative units inherited from the British Raj. They generally form the level of local government immediately below that of the States and Territories of India. Where justified, districts may be further grouped into administrative divisions, which form an intermediate level between the district and the sub-national state "State (sub-national entity)") (or union territory).[15]​[16]​.

A district is headed by a deputy commissioner/collector, who is responsible for general administration and maintenance of law and order. The district collector may belong to IAS (Indian Administrative Service). Other key responsibilities include tax collection and criminal prosecution in the district and session courts. The Deputy Commissioner/District Collector is generally given magisterial powers under Section 20 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and is appointed as a district magistrate. The official designations are “Collector and District Magistrate” or “Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate”.

Districts are most often subdivided into smaller administrative units, called tehsils or talukas or mavattams, depending on the region. These units have specific local responsibilities, including, in particular, the coordination of revenue collection.

An intermediate level (the subdivision) between the district and tehsil/taluka can be formed by grouping these units under the supervision of deputy commissioner") or sub-collectors. Each district includes one or two cities (or large towns), a few smaller towns and dozens of villages. Most Indian districts have the same name as their main town or city.

Indonesia

In Papua and West Papua, two of Indonesia's 34 provinces, a distrik is a subdivision of a regency or city. Formerly it was called kecamatan. In translations of most official documents, kecamatan itself is translated as "district", but some other documents (especially from older times) translated it as "subdistrict", which is equivalent to kelurahan in recent translations. This ambiguity in the translation has caused confusion among foreigners. Distrik or kecamatan do not have legal autonomy to govern themselves, because they are only administrative extensions of a regency or a city.

Iraq

In Iraq, they use the word qadaa for districts. There are over one hundred districts, each district is within one of the 18 Iraqi governorates, sometimes known as provinces. The district is usually (but not always) named after a city within that district, usually the capital of that district.

Israel

Israel is administratively divided into six main districts, known in Hebrew as mehozot (singular: mehoz) and 15 subdistricts, known as nafot (singular: nafa). The districts are headed by an official appointed by the Ministry of the Interior.

Japan

A district is a local administrative unit that includes towns and villages, but not cities. In 1923, its administrative function was abolished, although it is still used for addressing purposes. "District" is also a translation of chiku, defined by Japan's planning law.

Kenya

In Kenya, a district (wilayah) is a subdivision of a province and is headed by a district officer.

Luxembourg

The district was the largest territorial subdivision of Luxembourg. There were three districts that were in turn divided into 12 cantons and 116 communes. In 2015 they were abolished.

Lesotho

Lesotho is divided into ten districts, each of which is headed by a district administrator. Each district has a capital known as a camptown. The districts are further subdivided into 80 constituencies, which consist of 129 local community councils. Most districts are named after their capitals.

Madagascar

The districts (departemanta, often also known by the former name fivondronana, singular fivondrona) are the second-level administrative divisions of Madagascar, below the regions. In total there are 114 districts. The districts are further divided into communes.

Malawi

Malawi is divided into 28 districts within three regions. Each district is headed by a district commissioner.

Mauritius

The districts of the Republic of Mauritius are the second-order administrative divisions after the country's Outer Islands. Mauritius is divided into nine districts consisting of 2 cities, 4 towns and 130 villages, the capital being Port Louis.

Rodrigues Island used to be the 10th district of Mauritius, but gained autonomous status in 2002.

Malaysia

A district is known as daerah in Malay. A district governed directly by the federal government is known as a federal territory, and these are Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan.

In Peninsular Malaysia, a district is a division of a State. A mukim is a subdivision of a district. The mukim, however, is of less importance with respect to the administration of local government.

In East Malaysia, a district is a subdivision within a division of a State. For example, Tuaran is a district within the West Coast Division of Sabah. A district is usually named after the main city or its administrative capital; for example, Sandakan City is the capital of Sandakan District, as well as the capital of Sandakan Division.

Malta

Malta has 13 electoral divisions for the unicameral parliament (single assembly). Each consists of a series of localities") (although there is no requirement that the electoral boundaries follow the boundaries of the localities).[17]​[18]​.

Mongolia

The districts (in Mongolian сум, sumo, sum or som, arrow) are the second dividing administrative level of Mongolia. The 21 aymags are divided into 329 sums.

Nauru

Nauru's districts are the only subdivisions of the entire state.

Nepal

Nepal is divided into 77 districts. Each district acts as an independent administrative unit. A district consists of two types of units such as Rural Municipalities") and Municipalities. Official documents such as citizenship cards and passports are issued by the Chief of District Office (CDO). Electoral districts are also constructed based on the distribution of population within the district.

New Zealand

A district in New Zealand is a territorial authority (second-level local government unit) that has not earned the distinction of being proclaimed a city. Districts tend to be less urbanized, tend to cover more than one population center and a greater amount of rural area, and tend to have a smaller population than cities. While cities and districts are generally considered two different types of territorial authority, the area covered by a city is often referred to as its district; For example, the term “district plan” is used equally in districts and cities. The Territory of the Chatham Islands is neither a district nor a city.

A district is not always a simple division of a region: several districts fall within two regions, and the Taupo district falls within four.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands, an arrondissement (plural arrondissementen) is a judicial subdivision equivalent to the district.

Pakistan

The districts of Pakistan are local administrative units inherited from the British Raj. They form a third-level administrative division in Pakistan after the provinces and divisions. Districts were generally grouped into administrative divisions, which in turn formed provinces. Pakistan has 160 districts (including ten in Azad Jammu and Kashmir). local district-level officials of all departments under the provincial government, while deputy commissioner") is the chief executive of the district.

Panama

In Panama, the districts correspond to the municipal unit within the provinces. These are internally subdivided into townships.

Peru

In Peru, the districts are the lowest level territorial divisions (they are the subdivisions of the provinces and departments), and therefore fulfill the role of municipalities. In Peru, each district has its own mayor, but it is worth noting that the capital districts of the provinces have the peculiarity that their respective mayors are also the mayors of the respective provinces to which certain districts belong.

Poland

The second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (LAU-1) in other countries is called powiat. In 2008, there were 379 powiat-level entities in Poland: 314 land counties and 65 urban counties.

Portugal

The districts (districts) are administrative divisions of Portugal. They were used primarily as areas of jurisdiction for civil governors, government officials who locally represented the central government. However, in 2011, the role of the civil governor became "de facto" extinct (although not "de jure"), with the decision made by the Government not to appoint new civil governors and to transfer their functions to other bodies. District areas are now only used as regional jurisdiction areas of some public bodies (such as district commands of the Public Security Police) and some private entities (such as district associations and football championships).

Republic of the Congo

The departments of the Republic of the Congo are divided into 86 districts and 6 communes. The districts are the second administrative level subdivision of the country.

Russia

In Russia, districts are administrative and municipal divisions of the federal subjects of Russia, as well as administrative divisions of larger cities ("city districts") commonly referred to as raion (Russian: ) and okrug (Russian: ) respectively.

The term “district” is also used to refer to the type of administrative division of the Sakha Republic—ulus (Russian: ; Yakut: ). The Sakha Republic is administratively divided into five cities under the jurisdiction of the Republic and 33 uluses. The law of the Sakha Republic establishes that the terms ulus and "district" are equivalent.[19]​.

In the historical context (for the Russian Empire), the term "district" is often used to refer to uyezd.

Serbia

Serbia is divided into twenty-nine districts (okrug) and the city of Belgrade, each of which is sub-divided into municipalities (opština")).

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is divided into districts[20]​[21]​ which are the second most important division after the provinces.

Syria

Syria's fourteen governorates, or "muhafazat" (sing. muhafazah) are divided into 65 districts, or manatiq (sing. mintaqah), including the city of Damascus. In turn, the districts are divided into 281 subdistricts or nawahi (sing. nahiya).[22] The districts have the same name as their capital.

South Africa

In South Africa, the municipal district" forms the layer of government below the provinces. A municipal district is further divided into several local municipalities&action=edit&redlink=1 "Local municipality (South Africa) (not yet drafted)").

This structure varies across the eight largest urban areas:

where a metropolitan municipality "Metropolitan Municipality (South Africa)") replaces both a district and a local municipality.

Sri Lanka

For local government purposes, the country of Sri Lanka is divided into nine provinces: Western "Western Province (Sri Lanka)"), Central "Central Province (Sri Lanka)"), South "Southern Province (Sri Lanka)"), North "Northern Province (Sri Lanka)"), Eastern "Eastern Province (Sri Lanka)"), North West "Northwest Province (Sri Lanka)"), North Central "North Central Province (Sri Lanka)"), Uva and Sabaragamuwa (however, the Northern and Eastern provinces have technically been jointly administered since 1988).

Each of the districts is divided into divisions. These were originally based on the feudal counties, korale and rata.

Sweden

Some municipalities in the Kingdom of Sweden have divided their territory into smaller areas, which are often assigned an administrative board responsible for certain elements of municipal government within their district. These areas take a variety of different Swedish names; However, "district" is usually the official term for them. The term "district" is sometimes used in unofficial contexts.

Swiss

In Switzerland, some cantons are organized into districts (bezirk), while others do not have districts and are governed in wahlkreise (constituency or electoral district).

Surinam

Suriname is territorially and administratively divided into ten districts (in Dutch: districten), which are in turn subdivided into 63 administrative ressorts (administratieve ressorten).[23]​.

Taiwan

In the Republic of China in Taiwan, the district (in traditional Chinese, pinyin, Qū) is the third level of the administrative division. It is a division of special municipality and provincial city of Taiwan Province. Currently, there are 157 districts in total of 5 special municipalities and 3 provincial cities.

Thailand

A district (amphoe) is a subdivision of a province (changwat) in Thailand. Some provinces also contain minor districts (), which are smaller than the average district.

Türkiye

In Türkiye, a district (Turkish: ilçe) is an administrative subdivision of a province (Turkish: il). They are governed by a district governor/official (kaymakam) appointed by the Ministry of Interior and a mayor elected by the local population.[24]​.

Ukraine

In Ukraine, districts (raions) are the second level of the administrative division of Ukraine and are mainly the most common division of Ukrainian regions, as well as the administrative divisions of larger cities ("urban districts").

Vietnam

The term district in Vietnam refers to the second-level administrative unit, below provinces (tỉnh) and municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương). This second-level unit is called huyện (counties) in rural areas, while in urban areas the districts are quận (subdivisions of municipalities), Thành phố trực thộc tỉnh (provincial cities) or thị xã (towns). As of April 4, 2020, Vietnam has 707 “districts,” including 77 provincial cities, 52 towns, 49 urban subdivisions, and 529 rural districts/counties (including 12 island districts/counties).

Zambia

Zambia's nine provinces are subdivided into 116 districts.

Austria

In Austria, the word Bezirk is used with different meanings in three different contexts:.

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is administratively divided into the following subdivisions:.

The rayons are further divided into municipalities (bələdiyyə).

Bahamas

The Bahamas is divided into 31 districts and 1 area administered by the central government.[5]​ The districts are further divided into 43 administrative districts.

Bangladesh

Districts in Bangladesh are local administrative units. In total, there are 64 districts in Bangladesh. Originally, there were 21 larger districts with several subdivisions in each district. In 1984, the government converted all these subdivisions into districts. Each district has several sub-districts called upazila in Bengali with a total of 493 upzillas.

Belgium

In Belgium it is the municipal unit called arrondissement (district), which are internally subdivided into communes. They are equivalent to the administrative level between the province (or the capital region) and the municipality, or the lowest judicial level. Although the word is French, Dutch-speaking provinces also call their districts arrondissement, in the Dutch plural arrondissementen.

In Belgian municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, on the initiative of the local council, sub-municipal administrative entities with elected councils can be created. As such, Antwerp alone, with over 460,000 inhabitants, was subdivided into nine districts") (Dutch: districten).

Benin

In Benin, the higher administrative units make up the 12 departments of Benin, which are subdivided into 77 communes, further divided into 545 districts (arrondissements, in French).

Burma

The 67 districts of Burma are the second administrative division of that country, below regions and states and above municipalities.

Botswana

Botswana is divided into 17 districts, 10 rural and 7 urban. They are administered by 16 local authorities (district, city or town councils).[6]​[7]​.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a district is an autonomous administrative unit.

The Brčko district in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina is formally part of both the Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Brčko District Assembly has 29 seats.

Brazil

The municipalities of Brazil are subdivided into districts. Small municipalities usually have a single urban district, containing the city itself, which consists of the seat of local government, where the prefeitura and the câmara de vereadores (city council and municipal council, respectively, the local executive and legislative bodies) are located. Rural districts and groups of urban districts (mainly in large cities) can also present a sublocal executive body, called subprefeitura.

Brunei

A district is known locally as daerah and is the first-level administrative division of Brunei. There are four districts in the country, namely Brunei-Muara), Tutong, Belait and Temburong. Each district is administered by a Jabatan Daerah (district office), which is headed by a Pegawai Daerah (district officer). All district offices are government departments under the Ministry of Home Affairs (Malay: Kementerian Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri).

Bhutan

The districts of Bhutan (dzongkhag) are local administrative units consisting of village blocks called gewog"). Some have sub-districts called dungkhag").

Canada

In the province of Quebec (Canada), the cities of Quebec, Cookshire-Eaton, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Longueuil, Lévis, Montreal, Métis-sur-Mer, Saguenay and Sherbrooke are divided into arrondissements (districts) which are in turn divided into neighborhoods.

Czechia

A "district" in the Czech Republic is an okres") (plural okresy). After a reform in 2002, the districts lost administrative power to regions (kraje) and selected cities (pověřené obce) and became statistical areas.

China

In mainland China, district (simplified Chinese, pinyin, shìxiá qū) is a subdivision of any of several administrative units of cities, including municipalities, subprovincial cities, and prefecture-level cities. The districts have county level status.

Modern districts are a recent innovation. In the context of premodern China, the English translation "district" is typically associated with xian (in traditional Chinese, pinyin, xiàn), another Chinese administrative division. The xian translates as "county of the People's Republic of China" in the context of modern China.

Colombia

In Colombia, the districts are a type of municipality with special characteristics, which the Congress of the Republic elevates to this regime, of which at the moment there are 12:.

South Korea

A district (gu) is a subdivision of the largest cities in South Korea. Smaller cities do not have districts, while districts in Seoul and six metropolitan cities") are treated as a city in their own right.

Costa Rica

After the province and the canton (municipality); The district is the last step of the territorial organization into which Costa Rica is divided.

Slovakia

In Slovakia, a district (okres")) is a local administrative unit.

USA

There are several types of districts in the United States.

The District of Columbia is the only part of the United States, excluding the United States Territories, that is not located within any of the fifty states.

A constituency with one representative in Congress is a Congressional District. Each state is organized into one or more of these districts; The exact number within each state is based on the most recent census. Only voters within each district may vote in the election for that district's member of the House of Representatives. In total, there are 435 congressional districts in the United States; each has approximately 630,000 people, with some variations.

A constituency with one representative in a state legislature is a *legislative district").

Municipal councils that are not elected at large may have electoral districts called wards or districts.

The territory over which a federal court has jurisdiction is a federal judicial district. In more than half of the states, a federal judicial district is coextensive with the state. In other states, there is more than one such district.

The United States also has many types of special purpose districts with limited local government powers. School districts are the most common, but other types of districts include community college districts, hospital districts, public utility districts, irrigation districts, port districts, and public transportation districts.

Various federal, regional, and local agencies, such as the National Register of Historic Places, recognized historic districts as "Historic District (United States)").

Some cities like New York are made up of districts or boroughs "Borough (New York)").

Philippines

The use of the term district (district) in the Philippines has similarities with that in the United States.

France

The districts of France were the first subdivision of the départements from March 4, 1790 to 28 pluviôse an VIII (February 17, 1800). Then in the 19th century, the districts were a kind of intercommunity, they were replaced by communauté de communes and communautés d'agglomération after 1999.

Currently in France there are two types of districts:.

Ghana

Districts are second-level administrative subdivisions of Ghana, below the region level. There are currently 261 local metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (or MMDAs).[11]​[12]​.

Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea is divided into 8 provinces, and these are divided into 19 districts and 37 municipalities. The municipalities are also divided into urban districts and rural localities.[13]​[14]​.

Haiti

In Haiti, the 42 districts (arrondissements) correspond to the municipal unit and are in turn subdivided into communes.

Hungary

The 175 districts were established on January 1, 2013. The existing 19 counties are subdivided into 6 to 18 districts per county. The capital Budapest does not belong to any county and is already divided into 23 districts.

India

Districts in India are local administrative units inherited from the British Raj. They generally form the level of local government immediately below that of the States and Territories of India. Where justified, districts may be further grouped into administrative divisions, which form an intermediate level between the district and the sub-national state "State (sub-national entity)") (or union territory).[15]​[16]​.

A district is headed by a deputy commissioner/collector, who is responsible for general administration and maintenance of law and order. The district collector may belong to IAS (Indian Administrative Service). Other key responsibilities include tax collection and criminal prosecution in the district and session courts. The Deputy Commissioner/District Collector is generally given magisterial powers under Section 20 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and is appointed as a district magistrate. The official designations are “Collector and District Magistrate” or “Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate”.

Districts are most often subdivided into smaller administrative units, called tehsils or talukas or mavattams, depending on the region. These units have specific local responsibilities, including, in particular, the coordination of revenue collection.

An intermediate level (the subdivision) between the district and tehsil/taluka can be formed by grouping these units under the supervision of deputy commissioner") or sub-collectors. Each district includes one or two cities (or large towns), a few smaller towns and dozens of villages. Most Indian districts have the same name as their main town or city.

Indonesia

In Papua and West Papua, two of Indonesia's 34 provinces, a distrik is a subdivision of a regency or city. Formerly it was called kecamatan. In translations of most official documents, kecamatan itself is translated as "district", but some other documents (especially from older times) translated it as "subdistrict", which is equivalent to kelurahan in recent translations. This ambiguity in the translation has caused confusion among foreigners. Distrik or kecamatan do not have legal autonomy to govern themselves, because they are only administrative extensions of a regency or a city.

Iraq

In Iraq, they use the word qadaa for districts. There are over one hundred districts, each district is within one of the 18 Iraqi governorates, sometimes known as provinces. The district is usually (but not always) named after a city within that district, usually the capital of that district.

Israel

Israel is administratively divided into six main districts, known in Hebrew as mehozot (singular: mehoz) and 15 subdistricts, known as nafot (singular: nafa). The districts are headed by an official appointed by the Ministry of the Interior.

Japan

A district is a local administrative unit that includes towns and villages, but not cities. In 1923, its administrative function was abolished, although it is still used for addressing purposes. "District" is also a translation of chiku, defined by Japan's planning law.

Kenya

In Kenya, a district (wilayah) is a subdivision of a province and is headed by a district officer.

Luxembourg

The district was the largest territorial subdivision of Luxembourg. There were three districts that were in turn divided into 12 cantons and 116 communes. In 2015 they were abolished.

Lesotho

Lesotho is divided into ten districts, each of which is headed by a district administrator. Each district has a capital known as a camptown. The districts are further subdivided into 80 constituencies, which consist of 129 local community councils. Most districts are named after their capitals.

Madagascar

The districts (departemanta, often also known by the former name fivondronana, singular fivondrona) are the second-level administrative divisions of Madagascar, below the regions. In total there are 114 districts. The districts are further divided into communes.

Malawi

Malawi is divided into 28 districts within three regions. Each district is headed by a district commissioner.

Mauritius

The districts of the Republic of Mauritius are the second-order administrative divisions after the country's Outer Islands. Mauritius is divided into nine districts consisting of 2 cities, 4 towns and 130 villages, the capital being Port Louis.

Rodrigues Island used to be the 10th district of Mauritius, but gained autonomous status in 2002.

Malaysia

A district is known as daerah in Malay. A district governed directly by the federal government is known as a federal territory, and these are Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan.

In Peninsular Malaysia, a district is a division of a State. A mukim is a subdivision of a district. The mukim, however, is of less importance with respect to the administration of local government.

In East Malaysia, a district is a subdivision within a division of a State. For example, Tuaran is a district within the West Coast Division of Sabah. A district is usually named after the main city or its administrative capital; for example, Sandakan City is the capital of Sandakan District, as well as the capital of Sandakan Division.

Malta

Malta has 13 electoral divisions for the unicameral parliament (single assembly). Each consists of a series of localities") (although there is no requirement that the electoral boundaries follow the boundaries of the localities).[17]​[18]​.

Mongolia

The districts (in Mongolian сум, sumo, sum or som, arrow) are the second dividing administrative level of Mongolia. The 21 aymags are divided into 329 sums.

Nauru

Nauru's districts are the only subdivisions of the entire state.

Nepal

Nepal is divided into 77 districts. Each district acts as an independent administrative unit. A district consists of two types of units such as Rural Municipalities") and Municipalities. Official documents such as citizenship cards and passports are issued by the Chief of District Office (CDO). Electoral districts are also constructed based on the distribution of population within the district.

New Zealand

A district in New Zealand is a territorial authority (second-level local government unit) that has not earned the distinction of being proclaimed a city. Districts tend to be less urbanized, tend to cover more than one population center and a greater amount of rural area, and tend to have a smaller population than cities. While cities and districts are generally considered two different types of territorial authority, the area covered by a city is often referred to as its district; For example, the term “district plan” is used equally in districts and cities. The Territory of the Chatham Islands is neither a district nor a city.

A district is not always a simple division of a region: several districts fall within two regions, and the Taupo district falls within four.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands, an arrondissement (plural arrondissementen) is a judicial subdivision equivalent to the district.

Pakistan

The districts of Pakistan are local administrative units inherited from the British Raj. They form a third-level administrative division in Pakistan after the provinces and divisions. Districts were generally grouped into administrative divisions, which in turn formed provinces. Pakistan has 160 districts (including ten in Azad Jammu and Kashmir). local district-level officials of all departments under the provincial government, while deputy commissioner") is the chief executive of the district.

Panama

In Panama, the districts correspond to the municipal unit within the provinces. These are internally subdivided into townships.

Peru

In Peru, the districts are the lowest level territorial divisions (they are the subdivisions of the provinces and departments), and therefore fulfill the role of municipalities. In Peru, each district has its own mayor, but it is worth noting that the capital districts of the provinces have the peculiarity that their respective mayors are also the mayors of the respective provinces to which certain districts belong.

Poland

The second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (LAU-1) in other countries is called powiat. In 2008, there were 379 powiat-level entities in Poland: 314 land counties and 65 urban counties.

Portugal

The districts (districts) are administrative divisions of Portugal. They were used primarily as areas of jurisdiction for civil governors, government officials who locally represented the central government. However, in 2011, the role of the civil governor became "de facto" extinct (although not "de jure"), with the decision made by the Government not to appoint new civil governors and to transfer their functions to other bodies. District areas are now only used as regional jurisdiction areas of some public bodies (such as district commands of the Public Security Police) and some private entities (such as district associations and football championships).

Republic of the Congo

The departments of the Republic of the Congo are divided into 86 districts and 6 communes. The districts are the second administrative level subdivision of the country.

Russia

In Russia, districts are administrative and municipal divisions of the federal subjects of Russia, as well as administrative divisions of larger cities ("city districts") commonly referred to as raion (Russian: ) and okrug (Russian: ) respectively.

The term “district” is also used to refer to the type of administrative division of the Sakha Republic—ulus (Russian: ; Yakut: ). The Sakha Republic is administratively divided into five cities under the jurisdiction of the Republic and 33 uluses. The law of the Sakha Republic establishes that the terms ulus and "district" are equivalent.[19]​.

In the historical context (for the Russian Empire), the term "district" is often used to refer to uyezd.

Serbia

Serbia is divided into twenty-nine districts (okrug) and the city of Belgrade, each of which is sub-divided into municipalities (opština")).

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is divided into districts[20]​[21]​ which are the second most important division after the provinces.

Syria

Syria's fourteen governorates, or "muhafazat" (sing. muhafazah) are divided into 65 districts, or manatiq (sing. mintaqah), including the city of Damascus. In turn, the districts are divided into 281 subdistricts or nawahi (sing. nahiya).[22] The districts have the same name as their capital.

South Africa

In South Africa, the municipal district" forms the layer of government below the provinces. A municipal district is further divided into several local municipalities&action=edit&redlink=1 "Local municipality (South Africa) (not yet drafted)").

This structure varies across the eight largest urban areas:

where a metropolitan municipality "Metropolitan Municipality (South Africa)") replaces both a district and a local municipality.

Sri Lanka

For local government purposes, the country of Sri Lanka is divided into nine provinces: Western "Western Province (Sri Lanka)"), Central "Central Province (Sri Lanka)"), South "Southern Province (Sri Lanka)"), North "Northern Province (Sri Lanka)"), Eastern "Eastern Province (Sri Lanka)"), North West "Northwest Province (Sri Lanka)"), North Central "North Central Province (Sri Lanka)"), Uva and Sabaragamuwa (however, the Northern and Eastern provinces have technically been jointly administered since 1988).

Each of the districts is divided into divisions. These were originally based on the feudal counties, korale and rata.

Sweden

Some municipalities in the Kingdom of Sweden have divided their territory into smaller areas, which are often assigned an administrative board responsible for certain elements of municipal government within their district. These areas take a variety of different Swedish names; However, "district" is usually the official term for them. The term "district" is sometimes used in unofficial contexts.

Swiss

In Switzerland, some cantons are organized into districts (bezirk), while others do not have districts and are governed in wahlkreise (constituency or electoral district).

Surinam

Suriname is territorially and administratively divided into ten districts (in Dutch: districten), which are in turn subdivided into 63 administrative ressorts (administratieve ressorten).[23]​.

Taiwan

In the Republic of China in Taiwan, the district (in traditional Chinese, pinyin, Qū) is the third level of the administrative division. It is a division of special municipality and provincial city of Taiwan Province. Currently, there are 157 districts in total of 5 special municipalities and 3 provincial cities.

Thailand

A district (amphoe) is a subdivision of a province (changwat) in Thailand. Some provinces also contain minor districts (), which are smaller than the average district.

Türkiye

In Türkiye, a district (Turkish: ilçe) is an administrative subdivision of a province (Turkish: il). They are governed by a district governor/official (kaymakam) appointed by the Ministry of Interior and a mayor elected by the local population.[24]​.

Ukraine

In Ukraine, districts (raions) are the second level of the administrative division of Ukraine and are mainly the most common division of Ukrainian regions, as well as the administrative divisions of larger cities ("urban districts").

Vietnam

The term district in Vietnam refers to the second-level administrative unit, below provinces (tỉnh) and municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương). This second-level unit is called huyện (counties) in rural areas, while in urban areas the districts are quận (subdivisions of municipalities), Thành phố trực thộc tỉnh (provincial cities) or thị xã (towns). As of April 4, 2020, Vietnam has 707 “districts,” including 77 provincial cities, 52 towns, 49 urban subdivisions, and 529 rural districts/counties (including 12 island districts/counties).

Zambia

Zambia's nine provinces are subdivided into 116 districts.